
The rebel who defied William the Conqueror
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The Battle of Eli
William ovisy becomes increasingly concerned that people are using these stores of wealth to resist him, so he goes around effectively taking it all. Herrywood disguises himself as a potter and slips off the isle of ely and into the royal encampment. But they all sort of agreed that this guy looks like herrywood, but he's nowhere near as tall and as big as herrywood. Bause. And we get some sources talking about o know, for centuries later, you could pull out norman swords, norman bits of armour, from the marshland around ely. So i think william may well have thought, doknow what? That
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